Elena R. Watson
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, Interpreter |
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Introduction | I love starting big projects. Too bad it takes me years to complete them... |
| Interests | Linguistics, Phonetics, Music, Reading, Children's Literature, Art, Pre-Raphaelites, Quilting, Embroidering, Knitting, Singing, Playing the piano, Oral Cultures, Swimming |
| Favorite movies | Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Wizard of Oz, Barfuss, Adrian Lyne's Lolita, I am Sam, Shirley Temple films |
| Favorite music | All of Beethoven's sonatas - especially #17, Rachmaninov's piano concertos, Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Schubert's piano fantasy Wanderer, Mozart's piano concerto # 21, Lerner & Loewe's Camelot, Hawaiian and Samoan folk music, Muse |
| Favorite books | Melmoth the Wanderer, Balzac, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Finnegans Wake, Nabokov, the Story of the Trapp Family Singers, Hermann Hesse, Umberto Eco, David Lodge, Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Anthony Browne, Suzanne Collins, Michael Morpurgo |